On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Dan Williams wrote: >On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 12:09 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 21 August 2009, Dan Williams wrote: >> >On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 11:17 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> On Thursday 20 August 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> >> >On Thursday 20 August 2009, roel kluin wrote: >> >> >> > Bug-Entry : >> >> >> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13947 Subject >> >> >> > : Libertas: Association request to the driver failed Submitter >> >> >> > : Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxx> >> >> >> > Date : 2009-08-07 19:11 (13 days old) >> >> >> > First-Bad-Commit: >> >> >> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git; >> >> >> >a=c omm it;h=57921c312e8cef72ba35a4cfe870b376da0b1b87 References >> >> >> > : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124967234311481&w=4 >> >> >> > Handled-By >> >> >> > >> >> >> > : Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> >> >> >> >> I think this should be fixed with patch of Dan Williams found here: >> >> >> >> >> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/12/299 >> >> > >> >> >Thanks, bug entry updated. >> >> >> >> Has this made it into 2.6.31-rc6? I have one of these pci cards, and >> >> it is still a no-show even after modprobing the mwl* and libertas >> >> modules. >> > >> >You're still looking for the softmac stuff, which the 'libertas' driver >> >doesn't support. You want to keep track of mwl8k where any new support >> >for softmac Marvell cards would end up. >> > >> >Dan >> >> I am also loading that mwl8k module, Dan, and that isn't doing any >> notable good either. These are NetGears latest pci 802-11bg cards. And >> the only pci or pci-e cards widely available (Staples stocks them) unless >> wallmart might have some (spitui) Belkin cards. I have not noted them at >> my local wally's. > >Right, because mwl8k supports only the softmac 8687 PCI-E parts right >now. It doesn't yet support the 8335 or 8310 or 86xx TopDog parts yet. >There hasn't been any movement on those for a while and I haven't gotten >around to abstracting mwl8k's hardware support to handle the older >parts. But mwl8k is the only driver that could possibly be relevant for >you, since libertas will always be for the fullmac-only parts (8385, >8388, 8686, 8688). > >Dan Thanks Dan, now I have a clearer picture, and I should be watching for patches to mwl8k to go by & testing them, that I can do if you want to put me on your patch list for that, if & when there are patches to test. ;-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Bowie's Theorem: If an experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
